Education laws in Ohio, Idaho subject of repeal campaigns

By staff and wire services reports

June 20th, 2011

Two states are pushing back against new education reforms by putting recently passed laws up for popular vote, the Huffington Post reports. We Are Ohio, a volunteer group of public workers that shares a building with the Ohio Education Association, announced Friday that it had surpassed its goal in receiving enough signatures to put up to popular vote a law passed in March that strips public employees of most collective-bargaining rights and mandates merit pay for teachers…